God’s timing was perfect with Jesus – so it is with us!

1. At the wedding in Cana, when His mom came to Him after the wine had run out:
“Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come” (Jn.2:4).
2. During the Passover preparations when His disciples asked where He wanted them to make the preparations:
[He said,] “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”
3. When the Feast of Booths in Judea was at hand and He went about in Galilee having refused to go because the Jews were seeking to kill him, His own brothers counseled Him go that He might “show [himself] to the world”:
[Jesus said to them,] “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here . . . you go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come” (Jn. 7:6 & 8).
4. After going to the Mount of Olives, Jesus early in the morning taught once again in the temple:
“These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come” (Jn. 8:20).
5. During the feast before the Passover, after His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, after Philip and Andrew informed Jesus of the Greeks who were seeking Him:
[And Jesus answered them.] “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified” (Jn. 12:23).
6. “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (Jn. 13:1).
7. After instructing His disciples during the Last Supper in the upper room:
[When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,] “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, [since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him]” (Jn. 17:1 [&2]).